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Like his political history, Jim Curley's Harvard History begins before the turn of the century in the day when a few of the boys at Pete Whalen's cigar store talked him into running for Boston's Common Council. Old Ward 17, an immigrant district which included City Hospital...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Harvard History of James M. Curley | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

In roaring chorus, the 173 Afrikaner Nationalists gathered in the shuttered caucus room broke into the old Dutch hymn, Let God's Blessings on Him Fall. Then the paneled teakwood doors swung open, and out into the early spring sunshine of Cape Town strode the man they had just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: God's Man | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

TRIGGER MORTIS, by Frank Kane (251 pp.; Rinehart; $2.95), starts shooting up the seamier side of Manhattan long before anyone thinks of calling the cops. Johnny Liddell, one of the hardest private eyes in town, takes on ex-pugs, Harlem hopheads, dance-hall dolls, a poverty-row pressagent and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mysteries | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Lana's fear was clear, and it led to Johnny Stompanato's death a month later. When it happened, all Hollywood broke loose. Newspapers all over the U.S. poured on the black ink and the big type, scrambled wildly for the kind of news that would keep the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Bad & the Beautiful | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

At Hangar C in the Snark compound, a bus disgorges a squad of Strategic Air Command trainees assigned to study the air-breathing missile. Another group runs a test on an 80-ft.-high telemetry antenna whose dish spreads 60 ft. wide. At the Cape fire station, the crew gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE RITE OF SPACE | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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